# Hidden Doors Found In Great Pyramid. Pyramid's Burial Chamber? Unlooted?

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**Created:** [July 15, 2005, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-doors-found-in-great-pyramid-pyramids-burial-chamber-unlooted/312632 "2005-07-15T12:11:22Z")\
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Could Khufu’s remains…remain?

[http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition\_id=10&categ\_id=4&article\_id=16740](http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=16740)

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> Now, Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities and director of the Giza Plateau, suspects that might not be the case.
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> “I really personally believe,” he recently told a sold-out lecture hall in the University of Pennsylvania’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, “that the secret chamber of Khufu is hidden inside the pyramid.”
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> What changed his mind was the discovery of a set of previously unknown doors, hidden in the shafts of the so-called “queen’s chamber” of the Great Pyramid.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hidden-doors-found-in-great-pyramid-pyramids-burial-chamber-unlooted/312632/2 "2005-07-15T12:54:34Z")

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This whole thing is sdomewhat complex. From what I’ve read, Gantenbrinck isn’t trained as an archaeologist, but is a robotics engineer (Not that this is a put-down; I admire his zeal and stepping outside his field and trying to negotiate the minefields of wiorking in a different discipline with the difficulties of media coverage and other such business). He started his “Upuat” investigations over a decade ago, and there has been some controversy and confusion about how things were done. His own web page is here: [http://www.cheops.org/](http://www.cheops.org/) . Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock write about him a lot, and I suspect that colors a lot of peoples’ thinking about him.

In any event, IIRC, his robots went up so-called “ventilation shafts” in the pyrmids and found at least one “hidden chamber”. But from the TV footage i’ve seen this is a pretty smal door fronting what is probably a pretty smasll “chamber” well up the shaft. I find it hard to believe there’s a burial up there, although I can believe that there may be a repository of small items.